Having been convicted of corruption in 2004, he received significant attention in 2019 when he successfully filed a lawsuit against the General Elections Commission to run for his second term in the legislative body.

[2] Taufik was later appointed chairman of the Jakarta branch of the General Elections Commission (KPU), but he was sentenced guilty of corruption in 2004 and was imprisoned for 18 months.

[3] In the 2009 Indonesian legislative election, Taufik ran as a Gerindra candidate for the Jakarta DPRD and won a seat after winning 21,624 votes.

[5] Following the 2014 presidential election, in which Prabowo Subianto lost, Taufik demanded the head of KPU be arrested, accusing him of cheating by opening ballot boxes.

[3] Taufik then filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Indonesia, with the Elections Supervisory Agency [id] approving him to run.

[17] Taufik's brother Mohamad Sanusi, is also a Gerindra politician, but was jailed for corruption in 2016 for receiving bribes from developers of Pantai Indah Kapuk.